Predictions underlie nearly every aspect of our lives, from sports, politics, and medical decisions to the morning commute. With the explosion of digital technology, the internet, and "big data", the science of forecasting is flourishing. But why do some predictions succeed spectacularly while others fail abysmally? And how can we find meaningful patterns amidst chaos and uncertainty? From the glitz of casinos and TV game shows to the life-and-death stakes of storm forecasts and the flaws of opinion polls that can swing an election, PREDICTION BY THE NUMBERS explores stories of statistics in action. Yet advances in machine learning and big data models that increasingly rule our lives are also posing big, disturbing questions. How much should we trust predictions made by algorithms when we don’t understand how they arrive at them? And how far ahead can we really forecast?

NATIVE AMERICA explores the world created by America's First Peoples. The series reaches back 15,000 years to reveal massive cities aligned to the stars, unique systems of science and spirituality, and 100 million people connected by social networks spanning two continents.

"The fight to stop fracking is a story of resistance powered by love -- for the water, for our communities and generations to come, for the better world that we're working so hard to build. In just 22 short, thundering minutes, WATER WARRIORS will leave you immersed in that story, seeing anew all that surrounds you."Naomi Klein, author of No Is Not Enough and This Changes Everything

WATER WARRIORS is the story of a community’s successful fight to protect their water from the oil and natural gas industry.

In 2013, Texas-based SWN Resources arrived in New Brunswick, Canada to explore for natural gas. The region is known for its forestry, farming and fishing industries, which are both commercial and small-scale subsistence operations that rural communities depend on. In response, a multicultural group of unlikely warriors - including members of the Mi’kmaq Elsipogtog First Nation, French-speaking Acadians and English-speaking families - set up a series of road blockades, sometimes on fire, preventing exploration. After months of resistance, their efforts not only halted drilling; they elected a new government and won an indefinite moratorium on fracking in the province.

WATER WARRIORS is a short film and photo exhibit that can scale to fit a variety of spaces and events styles.

DIGITAL DISCONNECT - based on the acclaimed book by media scholar Robert McChesney, trains its sights on the relationship between the internet and democracy in the age of fake news, filter bubbles, and Facebook security breaches. In a wide-ranging analysis that moves from the development of the internet as a publicly funded project in the late 1960s to its full-scale commercialization today, McChesney traces how the democratizing potential of the web is being radically compromised by the logic of capitalism and the unaccountable power of a handful of telecom and tech monopolies. The result is an indispensable classroom resource - a vital tool for helping students make sense of a technological revolution that’s radically transforming virtually aspect of human communication.

While most debates about the internet continue to focus on issues like the personal impact of internet addiction or the questionable data-mining practices of individual companies like Facebook, Digital Disconnect raises bigger questions about the political impact of the corporate and commercial interests that now dominate the internet. Along the way, it examines the ongoing attack on net neutrality by telecom monopolies like Comcast and Verizon; explores how internet giants like Facebook and Google have amassed huge profits by surreptitiously collecting personal data and selling it to advertisers; and shows how these companies have routinely colluded with the national security state to advance covert mass surveillance programs.

Even more urgently, Digital Disconnect clarifies how the rise of social media as a leading information source has worked to isolate people into ideological filter bubbles and elevate fake news at the expense of real journalism. At a time when debates about the questionable business practices of telecom and tech companies are moving to center stage like never before, Digital Disconnect raises crucial questions about who gets to control the internet and what it means for our democracy.

In this highly anticipated sequel to his groundbreaking Advertising & the End of the World, media scholar Sut Jhally explores the devastating personal and environmental fallout from advertising, commercial culture, and rampant American consumerism.

Ranging from the emergence of the modern advertising industry in the early 20th century to the full-scale commercialization of the culture today, Jhally identifies one consistent message running throughout all of advertising: the idea that corporate brands and consumer goods are the keys to human happiness. He then shows how this powerful narrative, backed by billions of dollars a year and propagated by the best creative minds, has blinded us to the catastrophic costs of ever-accelerating rates of consumption.

The result is an ideal teaching tool for courses that look at commercialism, media culture, social well-being, environmental issues, and the tensions between capitalism and democracy.

1. RESPECTING THE "MAOL"How Tourism is Changing Rapa Nui (Easter Island)Host Simon Baker travels to the remote south pacific island of Rapa Nui (Easter Island) to see how the recent growth in tourism is threatening the sanctity of its ancient Polynesian treasures, the indigenous Rapa Nui people and the environment. Rapa Nui (Easter Island) is one of the most remote inhabited Islands in the world. Lying 3500km’s off the coast of Chile, who annexed the Island in 1888, Rapa Nui is famous for its ‘Moai’, ancient stone statues its ancestors carved and moved throughout this remote south pacific island. Today, Rapa Nui has become a bucket list destination that each year draws more foreign tourists. The roughly 3500 indigenous Rapa Nui living on the island now worry about the impact increasing tourism, immigration, and commercial development is having on their culture and the legacy of their ancestors.

2. CHILE - The Fight for One of the Last Rivers in the Driest Place on EarthSimon travels to the top of the Andes in northern Chile where a massive new mining project threatens the sacred glaciers of the Colla people, the only source of water in one of the driest paces on earth. Travel to the Atacama Desert in northern Chile, one of the most mineral rich regions in the world. Centered around Copiapo, a town made famous in 2010 for the 33 miners who were rescued after a world record 69 days trapped underground, Simon learns how a more recent extreme weather event exposed the delicate balance between water and mining in the driest place on earth. Now, a massive new mining project at the top of the Andes threatens the prehistoric rock glaciers that give birth to the rivers that provide the only source of water.

3. CANADA / LAKE WINNIPEG - Is it too Late to Save Lake Winnipeg, the World’s 10th Largest Lake? Host Simon Baker travels to Manitoba, in the heart of the Canadian Prairies, to see why the world's tenth largest lake is dying and how indigenous knowledge can provide a means to ensure its survival. In Winnipeg, government, scientists and business leaders have come together to share their concerns about the future of Lake Winnipeg, the world’s tenth largest lake. For decades, the run off of fertilizers from agricultural production, sewage and commercial phosphates have flowed into Lake Winnipeg, creating huge algae blooms that are slowly sucking the life out of the lake, threatening the tourism and fishing industries that rely on it.

4. NAMIBIA: Conserving Culture for the Oldest People on the PlanetHost Simon Baker travels to Namibia to learn why the San people, the oldest culture on the planet, have created a vast conservation area to protect themselves from the outside world. Namibia is one of Africa’s newest countries. When Namibia gained its independence from South Africa in the late 1990’s, the government created vast conservation areas called ‘conservancies’ that allowed its indigenous peoples to return to their homelands. From the capital city of Windhoek, Simon ventures north to visit the San people of Tsumkwe, descendants of some of the first people to have walked our planet. The San people created the Nyae Nyae Conservancy a vast protected area in their traditional territory that allows them to conserve their culture and big game..

5. LOUISIANA - Meet America’s First Climate Change RefugeesHost Simon Baker travels to the Bayous of southern Louisiana to see how three indigenous tribes are adapting to rising sea levels that are slowly sinking their communities. Travel to the gulf coast of Louisiana to visit three Native American tribes struggling to maintain themselves against more frequent hurricanes, rising seas levels and the fallout of oil production. Beginning in Pointe au Chien, Simon sees how the canals dug out by oil companies to ferry oil-drilling platforms to the Gulf of Mexico are dramatically eroding the shoreline and shrinking their land base. Combined with more frequent hurricanes and storm surges, However, for the neighboring tribe of Isle de Jean Charles, the sea level rise has already overtaken most of their territory and a recent federal government grant has given this Choctaw tribe the dubious distinction as ‘America’s first climate change refugees’.

6. MEXICO - For Mexico’s Forgotten People, Violence is Now an Environmental IssueHost Simon Baker travels deep into the remote Mezquital region of Northern Mexico where once forgotten indigenous communities are now caught in a battle between drug cartels and Mexico’s military police.Deep inside Mexico’s Durango State, meet indigenous communities still practicing their traditional justice systems, largely independent from the Government of Mexico. Long before the Spanish came to colonize the country centuries ago, the Mezquital, a remote part of the Sierra Madres Mountains, was home to the indigenous O'Dam, Mexicaneros and Wirrarika people. For generations, Mexico largely ignored these indigenous people who successfully carved out their own existence, culture, identity and social justice system. However, recent events have impoverished their agrarian communities and made them easy targets for the cartels, which coerce them into growing illegal crops.

The Na people (also known as Moso) of southwest China, along the confluence of Chinese and Tibetan cultures, are best known in the West for their matrilineal kinship system. Western representations of Na culture usually overlook the significance of religion, a central aspect in the lives of Na people. This richly detailed documentary, created by Na directors Onci Archei and Ruheng Duoji and produced by American anthropologist and ethnographic filmmaker Tami Blumenfield, consists of five short pieces that capture important Na ceremonies. In the words of Jenny Chio, Asst. Prof. of Anthropology at Emory University, Some Na Ceremonies - is one of the most unique yet accessible works of ’participatory video’ or community media produced out of China in the recent past." Ranging from a village film festival, to a pig-sacrifice ceremony, to a three-day funerary ceremony, the ceremonies presented are riveting, elaborate, and meaningful. By avoiding interpretation or voice-over narration but using carefully selected visual images and thought-provoking editing, the film emphasizes the partiality of any representational attempt. The ceremonies presented are but a glimpse of a much larger ceremonial and spiritual world. Some Na Ceremonies is an outgrowth of the Moso Media Project, a collaborative, participatory-media project that provides resources and training for Na people interested in creating and editing digital media, then facilitating community conversations about the finished films. Highly original, challenging, and engaging, Some Na Ceremonies will inspire critical viewing, thinking, and discussion in a wide range of courses in Asian studies, Chinese and Tibetan studies, cultural anthropology, comparative religion, and film studies. Producer Tami Blumenfield is the James. B. Duke Assistant Professor of Asian Studies at Furman University. Filmmakers Onci Archei and Ruheng Duoji are directors of the Moso Folk Museum.

REVIEWS"Some Na Ceremonies is one of the most unique yet accessible works of ´participatory video´ or community media produced out of China in the recent past. Unlike other documentary videos made by amateur filmmakers who have been trained and guided, if not directed, by professional filmmakers and development workers, the value of the five segments contained in Some Na Ceremonies lies not only in the direct, observational mode of shooting but also in the truly collaborative spirit embodied in the explanatory text, titles, and broader context of production. The film will be especially valuable in courses dealing with contemporary society and culture in China, as well as concepts in cultural anthropology, as its content and themes speak directly to much of the scholarly literature on ethnic minority identity and heritage revitalization in China today, as well as the diversity and depth of religious beliefs and practices in contemporary rural lives. Furthermore, I find great teaching value in the structure of the film as a collection of some ceremonies. By not forcing the material into a standardized narrative form, Some Na Ceremonies provides a rich and challenging film for students to really engage in practices of critical viewing." Jenny Chio, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Associated Faculty, Film and Media Studies, Emory University

"Highly recommended! This fascinating work provides a rare look at a tradition which exists at the confluence of Chinese and Tibetan cultures. My own work focuses on Tibetan death rituals and shamanic journeys to the realms of the dead. The parallels and differences between Na and Tibetan ceremonies that the film reveals are endlessly intriguing. The fact that the footage was filmed and edited by members of the Na community make it especially valuable." — Alyson Prude, Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Religious Studies, University of Wisconsin, Whitewater

ETHNIC DANCE - DAILocated in the southwest region of China, Dai people enjoy mild weather and beautiful landscapes of mountains and lakes. While the water splashing and dragon boating events held in their annual spring festival showcase the close ties between their culture and the land, the water running in the rivers and lakes has often been the inspiration for their dance creations. The dance presentation titled Playing with Water allows the audience to experience vicariously the heat of the sunlight and the crystal clear water streaming though the river. This dance captures the unique body movements of Dai Dance that reflects the cordial and gentle nature of this ethnic group.

ETHNIC DANCE - AINI Neighboring with the Dai group, Aini group lives primarily in and around mountains and canyons at an altitude of twenty-five to eighty hundred feet. They are famous for their production of Pu Er Tea. Dancing and singing are second nature to the Aini people. In this program, while listening to the folk song titled Magical Village by famous Aini singer MI Xian, the audience will enjoy Ainis cultural traditions of tea brewing and folk dancing by girls clapping to the rhythm and wearing spectacular ceremonial costumes.

ETHNIC DANCE - TIBETAN Living on the Plateau, at an average elevation of over 12 thousand feet above sea level, the Tibetan people are known to be compassionate, bold, candid and devout. Most Tibetans practice Tibetan Buddhism. Just as the distinctive geographical and weather conditions in the region have influenced their dance movements, Tibetan’s sacred religious beliefs and political climate have also had an impact. This program combines both Tibetan folk dance and stage dance performances of The Song of the Emancipated Serfs choreographed by XU Xiaoping of China Central University for Nationalities and Tibetan Mystery choreographed by YANG Liping (also lead dancer). In addition, Madam Yang provides insight into her artistic and casting choices for Tibetan Mystery.

ETHNIC DANCE - INNER MONGOLIANIn this program, the ethereal voice of Buren Bayaer (a legendary Inner Mongolian Singer), along with the images of yurts and running horses, brings the audience to an otherworldly setting of Inner Mongolia. Inner Mongolians, in general, are known to excel at horse riding. The span of the great plain has cultivated the openness and strength in this ethnic group and nurtured their vigorous, bold and energetic dances. Distinguished Inner Mongolian dancers, Dun E Er and Si Qin Hua, demonstrate traditional Mongolian Horse Dance, Chopstick Dance and Bowl Dance. It features Leaping Horses choreographed by MA Yue of China Central University for Nationalities, a contemporary stage dance presentation inspired by Mongolian horse dance tradition. An interview with MA Yue provides an insight into the conceptual and artistic choices made in the creation of this dance piece.

ETHNIC DANCE - HAN Han is the largest ethnic group in China, whose people inhabit the middle and eastern regions of the country. Han’s folk dance tradition started on the streets in the 5th century as ritual events. Nowadays, this tradition named Yangko flourishes everywhere, on the streets, in classrooms and on stages. This program showcases a myriad of Yangko forms, both on and off stage, including Northeastern Yanko, Shandong Yanko and Shanbei Yanko, each has its distinctive features. The stage presentations of the Northeastern Yanko titled Happy Snow choreographed by WANG Xiaoyan and performed by MING Li of Shanghai Theatre Academy and the Shandong Yanko named Blossoms of Mountain Flowers choreographed by CHI Hong and MIAO Xiaolong and performed/produced by the Dance Department of Shanghai Normal University are stunning examples of this dance form.

U.K. theater company Frantic Assembly has emerged as one of the boldest and brightest stars in the international drama firmament. Building shows from the ground up - called devising, a form of improvisational, collaborative theater - is at the heart of the highly acclaimed troupe. This program provides insight into the devising process, from first thoughts to first night. Part celebration, part explanation of Frantic Assembly’s approach to production, it offers in-depth interviews and practical demonstrations that will inspire students as they begin their own devising journey. A viewable/printable worksheet is available online.

Viewed by many as the preeminent dramatist of our time, Nobel laureate Harold Pinter was also an accomplished actor, steeped in the relationship between text and performance. In this program, produced two years prior to his death, he advises a group of actors as they conduct staged readings of scenes from his plays. In addition, Pinter grants a candid and detailed interview, accompanied by his friend and longtime collaborator, director Henry Woolf. Students will discover Pinter’s thoughts on rewrites, blocking, pregnant pauses, staying true to the text, the role of the audience, the value of "liver and lights" over technical prowess, and more. Excerpts from The Room, The Dumb Waiter, Old Times, No Man’s Land, and other Pinter works are featured.

Viewers learn how to efficiently market themselves as excellent job candidates. In this program, viewers discover how to expand their network, find open positions, stay motivated, and overcome employment obstacles. 11 minutesTopics Covered*Expand your network* Find open positions* Stay motivated* Get comfortable with and use social media to its best advantage* Overcome employment obstacles

The above program is part of a 3-program series. The other two programs in the series are:

RESUMES AND COVER LETTERS THAT WORKACE THE INTERVIEW AND GET THE JOB

*** This series is ..."HIGHLY RECOMMENDED! " 3.5 stars (out of four) VIDEO LIBRARIANPro-active, informed, and prepared job seekers land better jobs in less time. With the help of this three-part series, viewers learn the best networking strategies; receive resume and cover letter ideas and tips; and discover the best ways to prepare for and ace the interview. Featuring career coaches and former job seekers,

KEYS TO GETTING HIRED SERIES also reveals the most effective ways to uncover job leads, connect with employers, and why employers make the hiring decisions they do. While the DVDs do not need to be shown sequentially, the best impact is for job seekers to view all three. Best uses include use in group workshops or Job Clubs; to supplement a job search or work prep curriculum; for individual study and research; or for use in traditional educational settings of all types.

Deepa Kumar, one of the nation’s foremost scholars on Islamophobia, traces how Muslims have become the predominant face of terror in U.S. news and entertainment media -- even though terror attacks by homegrown right-wing extremists have far outnumbered attacks by Muslims since 9/11.

Digging deep into history, Kumar offers a sweeping analysis of the changing views of Islam and Muslims in the West, examining the ways that ruling elites have long used the specter of a "Muslim enemy" to justify their imperial projects. And she shows how this increasingly menacing view of Islam has shaped public opinion and foreign policy in the United States over time.

Moving from the terror attacks at the Munich Olympics and the Iran-Hostage Crisis in the 1970s, to 9/11 and the start of the "war on terror", to the rise of Isis today, Kumar explores how American media discourse has cultivated irrational fears of Muslims over a period of decades. And she presents facts and a wealth data in response, expertly exposing and debunking the most deep-seated myths about Muslims and Islam that have taken root in the American imagination.

Given the current political moment, CONSTRUCTING THE TERRORIST THREAT couldn’t be more timely and important.

Tim Wise, one of the nation's foremost authorities on the costs and consequences of white privilege, breaks down the racial politics that were at work during the 2016 presidential election, arguing that Trump's race-baiting success with white voters was not a departure from American political norms but the continuation of a longstanding pattern of fear-based racial scapegoating

American public education is at a crossroads. For years now, public schools across the country have been struggling, desperately short on funds while facing extreme political pressure to improve student performance.

For advocates of public education, these struggles have been a major cause for concern. But for advocates of privatization, they’ve been a highly profitable business opportunity.

EDUCATION INC is a film about the accelerating movement to privatize America’s public schools. Filmmaker and parent Brian Malone travels to public school districts across the country to see for himself what the privatization movement is all about, and to determine what it would mean for his own kids if we abandoned our public school system.

Weaving striking footage from school protests and raucous school board meetings with commentary from some of the best-known educators in the country, Malone shows how private investors, large education corporations, and other for-profit interests have been quietly and systematically privatizing America's public education system under the banner of "school choice." Along the way, he clarifies the key issues at stake, and makes a powerful case for why public education matters.

The result is a powerful and deeply personal look at a pivotal moment in the history of American education.

This exhaustive biography covers the tumultuous career of the failed Austrian artist who nearly conquered the world: a series of events and people, a chemistry of history and current happenings, a confluence of economic, psychological, and political forces that turned a thousand minor, innocuous events into a huge and murderous whole. There had been wars before, and slave labor, and genocide, and treaties made to be broken, and propagandists who came to believe their own propaganda; what made this experience different is what is documented in this program: its vast scope, its documentation on film, and its central character, Adolf Hitler.

This program presents closely analyzed examples that show how sexism and antisexism may be contained in language used in song lyrics, everyday conversation, newspaper reports, written conventions, and satire.

This program puts the spotlight on the often-neglected language arts by offering new and exciting ways to bolster students’ speaking skills.

Teachers assign oral activities, but they don’t usually spend much time teaching students how to be successful with those activities. What does it take for students to be effective oral communicators?

Veteran teacher and author Erik Palmer answers that important question. Hepresents an approach to teaching speaking skills that is focused on preparing students for 21st century communication both inside and beyond the classroom.

You’ll visit elementary, middle, and high school classrooms where teachers are guiding and assessing students in collaborative discussions, media literacy, questioning and reasoning, speech presentation, effective multimedia use, and adapting speech to different content and tasks. You’ll learn about PVLEGS (Poise, Voice, Life, Eye contact, Gestures, Speed) and how this concept can help students become more effective public speakers.

Throughout the video, Palmer provides his expert advice on how teachers can focus on oral communication in their classroom and how these techniques can be implemented on a school-wide basis. You’ll also see him jump back into the classroom with a lesson on making thoughtful and targeted presentations to different audiences.

LISTEN UP! SPEAKING MATTERS is a key resource for teachers and schools committed to helping students acquire essential oral communication skills that cross content areas and support long-term success.

"Thanks to Sut Jhally's powerful last interview, Stuart Hall continues to instruct, illuminate, and inspire. His call for a conjunctural analysis of this moment, placing race and crime at the center, is not only prescient, but, given recent developments, absolutely necessary to our political survival."Angela Y. Davis | Distinguished Professor Emerita,University of California - Santa Cruz

In this interview conducted shortly before his death in 2014, Stuart Hall, one of the seminal figures in cultural studies, talks about his classic work Policing the Crisis, describes the political, symbolic, and material concerns that animated cultural studies in the 1970s, and offers a critical assessment of the field today. He then turns his attention to the always shifting terrain of race and identity in the United States and Britain, offering fascinating cultural and political insights into the presidency of Barack Obama and the 2012 Olympics in London. While Hall was physically ill for much of his later life, this final interview provides powerful testimony that his formidable intellect, sense of humor, and willingness to engage with the gritty realities of politics and power never deserted him.

An absolutely essential resource for anyone interested in cultural studies.

Filmmaker Daphne Valerius's award-winning documentary THE SOULS OF BLACK GIRLS explores how media images of beauty undercut the self-esteem of African-American women. Valerius surveys the dominant white, light-skinned, and thin ideals of beauty that circulate in the culture, from fashion magazines to film and music video, and talks with African-American girls and women about how these images affect the way they see themselves. The film also features powerful commentary from rapper and activist Chuck D, actresses Regina King and Jada Pinkett Smith, PBS news anchor Gwen Ifill, cultural critic Michaela Angela Davis, and others.

THE SOULS OF BLACK GIRLS has screened at hundreds of universities and organizations around the country, and earned Valerius the Rising Female Filmmaker Award at the Harlem Int'l Film Festival. In 2015, it aired on ASPIRE TV in association with the White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for African Americans, earning Valerius a trip to the White House as an invited guest of First Lady Michelle Obama.

*** A SPECIAL PRICE is available for non-College Non-University customers ***

When transitioning out of incarceration, individuals face many barriers to a successful reentry. This video series guides individuals through the essential steps they’ll need to take to overcome challenges and pursue long-term success and fulfillment after their incarceration. Through a positive, encouraging approach, the program motivates individuals to become self-sufficient and make the right decisions to put themselves on track to a successful reentry. Viewers gain valuable tip sand insight from experienced professionals working in reentry programs. The video series also features formerly incarcerated individuals who describe their reentry experiences in candid, honest interviews that will resonate with viewers. Each program is approximately 25 minutes and is sub-titled in English.

RECONNECTING WITH FAMILY AND COMMUNITYThis program helps viewers:*Understand the importance and advantages of reconnecting with family and others who may be positive influences.*Prepare for the difficulties they may encounter when re-establishing relationships.*Identify situations where it may be detrimental to reconnect with people from their past.*Discover community-based organizations or programs that can support their reentry goals.

MEETING YOUR BASIC NEEDSThis program helps viewers:*Prepare for the barriers they may face transitioning back to society, particularly in the first few weeks or months of their release.*Identify people, resources, and programs who can help them obtain their fundamental needs.*Recognize situations where staying with family or others can be detrimental to their reentry success.*Understand how to work toward short and long-term solutions to their fundamental needs.*Avoid common pitfalls that formerly incarcerated individuals often experience after release. *Click here to VIEW CLIP

MAKING HEALTHY CHOICESThis program helps viewers:*Understand the importance of managing their physical and mental health.*Identify resources and programs that help formerly incarcerated individuals monitor and improve their health.*Discover techniques for dealing effectively with substance abuse and addiction.*Learn about healthy coping methods for dealing with stress. *Click here to VIEW CLIP

FINDING EMPLOYMENTThis program helps viewers:*Learn the most effective techniques for finding job leads and securing job offers.*Discover best practices for completing job applications and creating resumes and cover letters.*Understand how to present themselves professionally in interviews.*Know when and how to appropriately address their incarceration with employers.

SUCCEEDING ON THE JOBThis program helps viewers:*Identify essential skills and personality traits required for retaining employment and career advancement.*Understand employers’ expectations.*Learn about behaviors and attitudes that can be detrimental to their job security and reputation.*Discover ways to work toward achieving better jobs and long-term career success.*Recognize the advantages of pursuing additional education or training

Success or failure in the kitchen depends on three elements interacting with each other: ingredients, time, and temperature. Measuring these three elements accurately helps ensure the end result is delicious food. This program resents measuring basics with humor and fun:* Units of measurement* Common abbreviations* Measuring tools and techniques* Proper measuring techniques for dry, solid, and liquid ingredients* Basic recipe conversion and cost comparisons

To keep up with the growth in human population, the quantity of food that will have to be produced over the next 50 years will be greater than the past 10,000 years combined. With seven billion people on the planet, traditional farming can only succeed with the assistance of science and a host of hi-tech tools and innovations. This program explores how farmers and scientists continually adapt and innovate in order to produce enough food to feed a hungry planet, while understanding and protecting the environment. *Closed Captioned

According to Oxford Dictionaries a vaccine is a substance used to stimulate the production of antibodies and provide immunity against one or several diseases, prepared from the causative agent of a disease, its products, or a synthetic substitute, treated to act as an antigen without inducing the disease. This program will look at the science behind the development of vaccines used to eradicate diseases and epidemics. The ability for vaccines to control and eliminate life-threatening infectious diseases will be discussed along with innovations that make vaccinations safer than ever. *Closed Captioned

This program delves into the dating phenomenon that has taken the world by storm. 21st century living is fast and furious and there is little time for cherished moments of tranquility. So in an age of deadlines and bold headlines, how does anyone have the time to find love? The answer: speedy location-based mobile dating apps that cut to the chase of sexual attraction. In this observational documentary, we explore the world of online dating apps with jaw-dropping stories that capture the funny, heartwarming and often dangerous moments that make up the modern dating world. Prepare to be immersed in an online world of deviancy, devotion, deception, heartbreak and outright sexual brazenness.

On the Internet, it’s incredibly easy, and fast, to research a topic with a few simple keystrokes. But it’s also incredibly easy to end up with unreliable and non-credible information that makes your research efforts fruitless. With an overwhelming abundance of options after doing an Internet search, how can you tell which results are reliable? In this video, viewers will learn strategies for narrowing down results and honing in on credible sources of information online. Experts such as college professors and media librarians offer advice, while students share their own experiences. A special section on one of today’s most popular research sites "Wikipedia" investigates whether it’s trustworthy or not for academic or professional use.

Learn how to present yourself professionally for interview and career success! This program provides a wealth of examples that demonstrate practical do's and don’ts for dressing and grooming. Interviews with real-world hiring experts will put your clients or students into the minds of employers so they are better prepared to meet expectations.

Viewers will:* Learn how to dress appropriately for the job they have or the job they want.* Identify the most effective ways to make a great first impression.* Gain insight into the minds of employers and hiring managers.* Understand expectations for grooming and behavior during interviews and on the job.* Acquire budget-friendly tips for finding the right clothes on a tight budget.